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World Archive Project Update

Was just out looking at some World Archives stats and am thrilled to report that there has been significant progress. 8 million records have now been keyed by more than 9,000 contributors!Â Here’s a list of projects that are currently being keyed:Â

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All this World Archives additions are great, but is any attention being made to updating the IGI on familysearch.org, especially the extracted records ? Specifically: - providing some simple way to search and filter out all the unsourced ‘LDS member’ submissions, which many of us are extremely reluctant to use as facts. - re-transcribing many of the microfilms to transcribe and post (on the web) the many birth, christening and marriage entries which don’t appear on the web - re-transcribing many of the microfilms to transcribe the overwhelming number of death/burial entries which are currently ignored - providing some mechanism to report (and correct) erroneous links on familysearch (i.e., marriage indexes in England where the Source link points to a Dutch record) As valuable as the familysearch/IGI is – as a basic reference and a pointer to the films – there is still a lot of solid data on the films which is not reflected on the web, so is potentially unavailable.